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Our Collaborators

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We collaborate with some of the world’s leading academic, research and clinical teams to advance our understanding of mental health and public health, and how the Orpheus Decoupling Process can be applied to help people. If you are interested in collaborating please contact us here.  Each collaboration is subject to individual agreements and must be approved by Orpheus before commencing. Our standard research use licence can be found here.

Our collaborators

Dame Clare Gerada

Clare qualified from University College London in 1982. After posts in accident and emergency and medicine, undertook a training at the Maudsely Hospital, leaving after MRCPsych to pursue her true passion, general practice.

Clare has practiced at the Hurley Clinic in London since 1992. Since then, she has become one of the most prominent figures in UK healthcare. Her list of achievements and appointments is long and distinguished, including; setting up the ground breaking Consultancy Liaison Addiction Service (a primary care led, shared care service) (1992-2006); Care of the Homeless (1996-2008): Care of doctors with mental health and addiction problems –leading the award winning, CQC Outstanding NHS Practitioner health www.practitionerhealth.nhs.uk (1998-) and latterly establishing the Primary Care Gambling Service (2019-). Clare has also held a number of national roles, including, Senior Policy Advisor Department of Health, Drugs and Alcohol. Director of RCGP Substance Misuse Use unit, Vice Chair of RCGP 2007 – 2010 and Chair RCGP 2011 – 2013, only the 2nd woman in the College’s 55-year history to hold this position. In 2020 Clare was appointed co-Chair of NHS Assembly developed to support the implementation of the NHS 10-year Plan. She is Non-Executive Director of University College Hospital (2109-) and in 2020 she became Chair of Doctors In Distress https://doctors-in-distress.org.uk/

Dr Stuart Watson

Alongside his role as Group Medical Director, Stuart is Chief Investigator on certain investigational studies as part of the portfolio of research at Orpheus Mind Technologies.

Prof. Daniel Crail-Meléndez

Daniel is the innovator who conducted the first randomised controlled clinical trial of the Orpheus intervention. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Neuropsychiatrist at the neuropsychiatry unit of the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Professor of contextual psychotherapies. His research interests include psychological trauma, psychiatric disorders in epilepsy and dissociative disorders, with a specialism in in functional neurological disorders.

Dr Matthew Franklin

Dr Shaun Liverpool

Shaun is Lecturer in Child & Adolescent Mental Health & Wellbeing at Edge Hill University. He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Psychology and a PhD from UCL in evidence based child & adolescent mental health. His Research interests include 1) the development and evaluation of digital mental health interventions, 2) shared decision making in child and adolescent mental health services and 3) global youth mental health with a focus on minority and marginalised groups.

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